busybodyismn.
/ˈbɪzɪˌbɒdɪɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈbɪziˌbɑdiˌɪzəm/ Behaviour characteristic of a busybody; acting as a busybody, meddling.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] > being a busybody or officiousness
businessa1466
busyty?1530
stickling1589
polypragmony1602
polypragmosyne1607
over-officiousnessa1610
officiousness1613
pragmaticalness1626
busybodyness1642
busybodying1824
busybodyism1828
pantopragmatics1860
superserviceableness1869
polypragmatism1890
1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 23 129 Curiosity..and a habit of busybodyism.
1842 E. A. Poe Myst. Marie Rogêt in Ladies' Compan. Dec. 96/1 The..circumstances..will be found to tally much better with my hypothesis of romantic busy-body-ism than with the reasoner's suggestion of guilt.
1895 Labour Ann. 98 The narrow, pettifogging busybodyism of a little Social-Democratic State.
1922 S. Dark Outl. Wells vi. 119 [Wells was] a believer in government by the..efficient so long as the evils of bureaucratic busybodyism were avoided.
1994 J. Malcolm Silent Woman i. i. 9 The voyeurism and busybodyism that impel writers and readers of biography.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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